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Jingu shares: Avatar's low-carbon wheel project was supported by ultra-long-term special national debt funds. According to Jingu shares, recently, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the list of the second batch of ultra-long-term special national debt funds to support equipment renewal projects in 2024. The Avatar low-carbon wheel production line project of Jingu Co., Ltd. received this batch of ultra-long-term special national debt of 32.17 million yuan, which was funded by the central government.France's nuclear power generation hit its highest level since January 19th.Guangdong: Reduce industrial coal to promote clean energy substitution in glass, aluminum and steel calendering industries in the province. The Guangdong Provincial People's Government issued an action plan for continuous improvement of air quality in Guangdong Province to reduce industrial coal. Under the premise of ensuring power and heat supply, biomass boilers (including gasifiers), coal-fired boilers that have not completed ultra-low emission transformation, and small coal-fired thermal power units (including self-owned power plants) that have not completed ultra-low emission transformation will be shut down and integrated. In principle, no new coal-fired boilers will be built in the Pearl River Delta region; It is forbidden to build new coal-fired boilers with a capacity of 35 tons/hour or less in the built-up areas of cities at or above the county level and the coverage of natural gas pipelines in eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong and northern Guangdong. By 2025, coal-fired boilers and operating stoves, grain storage drying equipment, agricultural products processing and other coal-fired facilities below 35 tons/hour in urban built-up areas at or above the county level will be basically eliminated.

Over 40% of the passengers at Shenzhen Bay Port brush their faces for customs clearance. At Shenzhen Bay Port, the per capita brush their faces for customs clearance for 10 seconds. At the same time as the implementation of the policy of "one sign and multiple lines" for Shenzhen residents to go to Hong Kong, Shenzhen Bay Port recently opened the "brush face clearance" measure. According to the statistics of Shenzhen Border Inspection Station, as of December 9, the number of people who used the "no-show-documents" channel for customs clearance exceeded 630,000, and the number of people who "brushed their faces for customs clearance" accounted for about 43% of the number of people who passed through the express channel in a single day. Passengers in the "ID-free" channel, through the head-up camera, automatic verification of fingerprints, faces and other biometric information, completed the customs clearance inspection within 10 seconds. (CCTV Finance)Without the government's approval, the South Korean National Assembly passed the budget reduction bill for next year. On the 10th, the South Korean National Assembly held a plenary meeting and adopted a cut version of the 2025 budget with a total amount of 673.3 trillion won (about 3.41 trillion yuan). According to Yonhap News Agency, this is the first time that the South Korean National Assembly passed the budget without agreement between the ruling party and the opposition party. In the 300-seat parliament, 278 members voted on the budget, 183 were in favor, 94 were against and 1 abstained. The ruling National Power Party and some opposition party members voted against it. This budget is one of the focal points of the recent struggle between the ruling and opposition parties in South Korea and one of the factors inducing the current political chaos. The original budget proposed by the government was 677.4 trillion won, but the largest opposition party, the Common Democratic Party, demanded a reduction of 4.1 trillion won, mainly involving the government reserve fund, the special activity expenses of the presidential secretary's office and the national security office, the special work expenses and special activity expenses of the procuratorate and the supervision institute. (Xinhua News Agency)Speaker of the South Korean National Assembly: Ask the government to draft a supplementary budget for 2025.

Government of India: Appoint Ajay Seth, the current Minister of Economic Affairs, as Minister of Finance.EUR/GBP fell 0.3% to 0.8249, the lowest point since March 2022.Israeli Defense Minister: Israel is establishing a non-threat defense zone in southern Syria.